SAR interferometry and offset tracking approaches for glacier movement estimation in the Himalaya

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3175-3178

  Kumar, Vijay ^a   Venkataraman, Gopalan ^a   Larsen, Yngvar ^b   Arild Høgda, Kjell ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b Northern Research Institute (Norut)   (Norway)

Author keywords

glacier flow; Himalaya; Intensity tracking; SAR

Indexed keywords

AZIMUTH DIRECTION; COHERENCE LOSS; CROSS CORRELATIONS; DATA PAIRS; GANGOTRI GLACIER; GLACIER FLOW; GLACIER MOVEMENT; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIMALAYAS; INTENSITY TRACKING; OFFSET TRACKING; REPEAT PASS; ROUTINE MONITORING; SAR; SAR DATA; SAR INTERFEROMETRY; SHORT PERIODS; SPOTLIGHT MODE; SUB PIXELS; SURFACE MOTIONS; TEMPORAL SEPARATION; TERRASAR-X;

ESTIMATION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GEOLOGY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETRY; MOTION ESTIMATION; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

GLACIERS;

EID: 80955136544     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6049893     Document Type: Conference Paper

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